H54.2X2
Low vision, right eye, category 2
H54.2X2 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code header for low vision, right eye, category 2. Report a more specific code from it instead. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. The more specific codes under it are H54.2X21 Low vision right eye category 2, low vision left eye category 1 and H54.2X22 Low vision right eye category 2, low vision left eye category 2. Its coding notes include a Code first instruction, 1 Excludes1 entry and 11 Excludes2 entries.
Guidelines tip
From the FY2027 Official Guidelines. ICD10Ref adds no rules of its own.
When blindness or low vision is documented without the visual impairment category, the code depends on whether one eye, both eyes or an unspecified number of eyes is affected.
Code first
If the underlying condition listed here is present and known, sequence it first.
- any associated underlying cause of the blindness
Excludes1
Not coded here. The listed conditions generally should not be reported together.
Excludes2
Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.
Also from chapter/block level (11 notes)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- diabetes mellitus related eye conditions (E09.3-, E10.3-, E11.3-, E13.3-)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury (trauma) of eye and orbit (S05.-)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
- syphilis related eye disorders (A50.01, A50.3-, A51.43, A52.71)
Notes
- For definition of visual impairment categories see table below
Also from chapter/block level (1 note)
- Use an external cause code following the code for the eye condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the eye condition